Jimmy Musings
Jimmy's role in the Quincy episode was small, but he was a good guy as far as we know. He was the trainer for a boxer. Some people involved with the boxer were crooks, but it didn't look like Jimmy's character was among them.
I saw his M Squad appearance tonight. He was the bad guy in it, and a murderer to boot! Not really what I was hoping for. But it did ensure him a large role throughout the episode. I took about 161 screengrabs. I still have to change them to JPG. I wish BlazeDVD didn't insist on saving all screengrabs as BMP.
And Jimmy is really an incredible actor. The murderer character was very unstable and a chronic liar. Jimmy played him very believably. Two different times he outright snapped and he was scary. I am all the more impressed with him after seeing that episode. He is really a sadly underrated actor.
If he had been a bank robber, that probably wouldn't have bothered me much. Especially since he was playing a gangster when I first stumbled across him. And his role in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys never bothered me. Actually, as I said before, I felt that his bank robber character was more honorable than the moral-less mayor. His character, Buckshot, didn't seem to want anyone to get hurt. He tried to stop one of the vicious robbers from killing an old man.
After I watched M Squad, I dug up the fifties movie Blue Denim online and skimmed through it until I found Jimmy's cameo in it, about 43 minutes in. I might watch the whole movie sometime. There's an actress in it that I like, Roberta Shore.
And I've noticed something else interesting. Even though I gobble up everything Jimmy's in, from the fifties through the eighties, I think I am most partial to his later work, from the late sixties on. It might be because that was about when he stopped playing kids and started playing mature adults. Sometimes I have a real fondness for older men characters over younger ones. And ... I have to admit, I think Jimmy only became more handsome as he aged.
I am really craving to watch his second Knight Rider appearance again. Poor Tom O'Malley was killed off, but he was a good guy, and he was central to the plot. They never stopped talking about him throughout the episode. I wish I had permanent access to that episode. I could watch his first Knight Rider appearance, which seems to be officially online, but the second one is only available if I order the Netflix DVD again. Or if I buy the season, which I might do sometime, because after watching the other episodes on the disc I think Knight Rider is a show I'd like seeing a lot of in general.
I'm almost done with chapter 5 of the weird Monkees fic. I finally posted chapter 4 on monkeesfic after receiving an enthusiastic response from someone in the comm on chapter 3. I'd been dragging my heels about posting 4 in the comm because I wasn't sure anyone was even still reading the fic there other than Crystal (and I don't think she's a member), and of course she would have access to it in other places where it will be posted, such as the fic journal. I've been getting a good response to it from the beginning in the Yahoo Group, which I'm thrilled about.
I saw his M Squad appearance tonight. He was the bad guy in it, and a murderer to boot! Not really what I was hoping for. But it did ensure him a large role throughout the episode. I took about 161 screengrabs. I still have to change them to JPG. I wish BlazeDVD didn't insist on saving all screengrabs as BMP.
And Jimmy is really an incredible actor. The murderer character was very unstable and a chronic liar. Jimmy played him very believably. Two different times he outright snapped and he was scary. I am all the more impressed with him after seeing that episode. He is really a sadly underrated actor.
If he had been a bank robber, that probably wouldn't have bothered me much. Especially since he was playing a gangster when I first stumbled across him. And his role in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys never bothered me. Actually, as I said before, I felt that his bank robber character was more honorable than the moral-less mayor. His character, Buckshot, didn't seem to want anyone to get hurt. He tried to stop one of the vicious robbers from killing an old man.
After I watched M Squad, I dug up the fifties movie Blue Denim online and skimmed through it until I found Jimmy's cameo in it, about 43 minutes in. I might watch the whole movie sometime. There's an actress in it that I like, Roberta Shore.
And I've noticed something else interesting. Even though I gobble up everything Jimmy's in, from the fifties through the eighties, I think I am most partial to his later work, from the late sixties on. It might be because that was about when he stopped playing kids and started playing mature adults. Sometimes I have a real fondness for older men characters over younger ones. And ... I have to admit, I think Jimmy only became more handsome as he aged.
I am really craving to watch his second Knight Rider appearance again. Poor Tom O'Malley was killed off, but he was a good guy, and he was central to the plot. They never stopped talking about him throughout the episode. I wish I had permanent access to that episode. I could watch his first Knight Rider appearance, which seems to be officially online, but the second one is only available if I order the Netflix DVD again. Or if I buy the season, which I might do sometime, because after watching the other episodes on the disc I think Knight Rider is a show I'd like seeing a lot of in general.
I'm almost done with chapter 5 of the weird Monkees fic. I finally posted chapter 4 on monkeesfic after receiving an enthusiastic response from someone in the comm on chapter 3. I'd been dragging my heels about posting 4 in the comm because I wasn't sure anyone was even still reading the fic there other than Crystal (and I don't think she's a member), and of course she would have access to it in other places where it will be posted, such as the fic journal. I've been getting a good response to it from the beginning in the Yahoo Group, which I'm thrilled about.